Bhargabi Bharadwaj is a research associate in the Environment and Society Centre at Chatham House. Her work focuses on risks to and governance of natural resources within key domains of international affairs, such as trade, security and climate change. Her research explores how developing countries can be supported equitably in achieving net zero, with a special interest in legal and regulatory pathways. Previously, she worked with the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC), where she led and supported national assessments of progress on climate adaptation in devolved nations and aided knowledge-sharing internationally. She also worked with the UN in North Korea’s complex protracted crisis context, where she co-authored numerous reports on the humanitarian, socio-economic and developmental context. She holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Kent and an LLM in public international law, with a focus on transnational environmental law, from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Richard King is a senior research fellow in the Environment and Society Centre at Chatham House. His work focuses on the sustainability of – and systemic risks to/from – food systems, agriculture, land use and soft commodity resource trade. His recent projects have included examining cascading climate risks in international food trade; policy design in support of climate-smart and nutrition-secure food systems in southern and eastern Africa; and emerging sustainability issues associated with land-based approaches to negative emissions. He was a lead author on the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) most recent flagship environmental assessment, Global Environment Outlook 6 (GEO-6, 2019).
Prior to joining Chatham House, Richard was deputy head of research at Oxfam GB, where he specialized in food and rural livelihoods, particularly in the contexts of climate change, resource constraints and market volatility.
Dr Mirianna Budimir is the senior climate and resilience expert within the Impact, Influence and Innovation team at Practical Action. She leads the organization’s work on equitable early-warning systems and provides technical support to programmes across Latin America, Africa and South Asia. She holds a PhD focused on cascading multi-hazards and risk, and serves as the global lead for Practical Action’s Missing Voices Approach.
